Angelos Floros

Presented: 9th Panhellenic Conference ACOUSTICS 2018, University of Patras, Hellenic Institute of Acoustics

Patra, Greece, October 8-9, 2018

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With the passage to the digital age and the tremendous evolution in microprocessors, many artists turned to electronic music. In our work, an open platform (set-up) of music creation through optical-electronic interfaces (sensors) is presented.

It exploits man’s kinesiology by combining laser beams and interfaces whereby, through a microcontroller, it creates or reproduces a multitude of musical joints as a real MIDI general controller. Sensors of metallic conductive materials, conductive pigments, as well as ultra-thin, transparent and flexible graphene films or graphene-related materials were studied. The results are quite satisfactory with high responses. The ease of creation and reproduction through this platform could make it a learning and entertainment tool, and maybe a music therapy tool.